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Sunday, October 09, 2005

i just like it, is all

Bar Italia for a late lunch Sunday. A barstool by the door, and the paper folded first longways then shortways. A cappuccino, and a panino hot off the grill. When the kitchen brought up my order, the waiters yelled: “Mortadella!” Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta on the big screen in the back. Plus the clink of thick glasses and sturdy crockery behind the bar, and the ring ring ring of the old brass register up front.

2 Comments:

Blogger bbrug said...

A couple of years ago, I had a long argument with some group of friends of mine who insisted that a mortadella was a fish. "No, no, it's definitely a salami," I kept saying, but they just laughed.

It sounds like a dream, but I assure you it wasn't.

11 October, 2005 13:47  
Blogger Tym said...

You're so great at finding lovely nooks for lunch and tea.

PS: Our phone call the other day came to $13.50 for about an hour's chat. Not bad, yah?

11 October, 2005 14:53  

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